Excerpt from The Princeton Review: July, 1866The sum of all these definitions or representations of Ration alism is that, in some form or degree, it makes reason the supreme authority in religion, and paramount to' the word of God, when the two come into conict. Of this there are vari ous degrees, ranging from the absolute renunciation of the word of God, and' even the possibility of a supernatural reve lation, to the rationalistic explaining away from one or more Christian doctrines those elements which, however scriptural, are unwelcome to the feelings, or inexplicable to the reason of the unbeliever. But perhaps rationalists may be reduced to three radical classes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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